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Customers at Vicious Rumors Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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Pride merchandise booth: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1999 at Sunset Park; Photographer: Dennis McBride (5-8-99); Pride merchandise booth.
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Gay, James A., III, 1916-1999
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James A. Gay III was born March 6th, 1916 in Fordyce, Arkansas. Arriving in 1946, Gay became the first African-American mortician in Las Vegas. He later worked as Assistant Manager of the Sands Hotel and Casino and Union Plaza while serving as an executive board member of the Culinary Union. Instrumental in the Las Vegas community, Gay worked to improved race relations, addressing social, economic, and civic issues. Gay was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988.
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Dennis McBride LGBTQ Poster and Sign Collection
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The Dennis McBride LGBTQ Poster and Sign Collection (1977-2018) contains posters and signs created by the Las Vegas, Nevada Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer/Questioning (LGBTQ) community, collected by historian Dennis McBride. These handmade and commercially printed signs cover events of particular interest to the Las Vegas, Nevada LGBTQ community, including social events, entertainment venues, political rallies, and Gay Pride events.
Archival Collection
Texas Rodeo Saloon in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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Rodney Sumpter oral history interview
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Oral history interview with Rodney Sumpter conducted by Dennis McBride on August 30, 1999 for the Las Vegas Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Archives Oral History Project. In this interview, Sumpter discusses his involvement with repealing one of Nevada’s sodomy laws (NRS 201.190) in 1985. He recalls going to the Nevada State Supreme Court and discusses similar cases involving sodomy laws in the United States.
Archival Collection
Angles-n-Lace Nightclub patio area in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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Customers at Vicious Rumors Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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People at Angles Nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada: photographic prints
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Archival Collection
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Ray Farmer and four unidentified men at the Buddies Together booth: photographic print
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Archival Collection
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Gay Pride 1996 (Dennis McBride, photographer) Buddies Together booth at Sunset Park. Ray Farmer, founder, seated on the left. (5-4-96)
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